#formicidae — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #formicidae, aggregated by home.social.
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A Spiny Sugar Ant (genus Polyrhachis) infected by a fungus spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Always exciting to spot these in the wild.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672657 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Fungus
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A Spiny Sugar Ant (genus Polyrhachis) infected by a fungus spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Always exciting to spot these in the wild.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672657 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Fungus
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A Spiny Sugar Ant (genus Polyrhachis) infected by a fungus spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Always exciting to spot these in the wild.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672657 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Fungus
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A Spiny Sugar Ant (genus Polyrhachis) infected by a fungus spotted at Rifle Range Nature Park, Singapore on 29 June 2025. Always exciting to spot these in the wild.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293672657 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Fungus
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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At Spadina Quay yesterday, it was moving day for this colony of ants (_Crematogaster_?). Workers were carrying pupae up the wooden railroad-tie pillar. There were many alate pupae which were so large they required a whole team to move! Still, they were making steady progress. Various predators, like sphecid wasps and zebra jumping spiders, looked on with interest.
The waterfront was full of people, many soccer fans, tourists, or just regular people, out enjoying the summer weather, oblivious to the incredible activity happening just steps away.
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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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I'll start off with some ants today. I'm not sure, but guessing ghost ants. They seem different than the ghost ants I normally see around here. As a super cool bonus though, there was a leucistic girl running around with them. I've not come across this in ants before. Is this common?
#Nature #Photography #SriLanka #Formicidae #Ants #Insects #Arthropods
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Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)
- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta
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Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)
- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta
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Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)
- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta
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Last night went out for a good bug ramble except I realized I forgot my light, so I went home and made do with my phone flash along the way. (OpenCamera has a torch flash mode where the flash is always on.)
- _Leptinotarsa_ potato beetles mating
- a huge _Clubiona_ leaf-curling sac spider eating a zebra jumping spider (_Salticus scenicus_)
- an ant war (_Tetramorium_?), this was only one of two large patches, with skirmishes up and down the sidewalk
- a *huge* sawfly larva? of some kind#ArthroBeauty #bugstodon #spiders #insects #beetles #ants #sawflies #Araneae #Clubionidae #Salticidae #Coleoptera #Chrysomelidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #Symphyta
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Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
http://flic.kr/p/2sjQzQ2 -
Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
http://flic.kr/p/2sjQzQ2 -
Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
http://flic.kr/p/2sjQzQ2 -
Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
http://flic.kr/p/2sjQzQ2 -
Thomas Shahan took a photo of a Crematogaster ant that everyone should go check out.
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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#DailySpiderPic: found a couple of _Myrmarachne_ ant-mimic jumping spiders on the garden wall today! With their shape and coloration combined with fast staccato motion, if you're not looking closely it's easy to confuse them with their model, _Camponotus_ carpenter ants (pictured: a worker feeding on a bit of apple I gave them, also today).
#bugstodon #antstodon #arachnids #spiders #JumpingSpiders #insects #ants #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #ArthroBeauty
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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Citrus snack time. These Ghost ants were doing something I've never seen before. This unknown citrus tree has several leaf buds just starting to elongate and they were clustering around these elongated bud tips. I don't know if they were actively chewing or just collecting phloem at damaged areas.
#Nature #Photography #Insects #Ants #Formicidae #Tapinoma #melanocephalum #Citrus #Macro #SriLanka
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A Giant Forest Ant, Dinomyrmex gigas, spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 14 June 2026. It didn't appreciate its view being blocked by a human poking a camera at it. :-)
These ants are among the largest in the world, measuring 2 to 3 cm in length.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371563286 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae
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A Giant Forest Ant, Dinomyrmex gigas, spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 14 June 2026. It didn't appreciate its view being blocked by a human poking a camera at it. :-)
These ants are among the largest in the world, measuring 2 to 3 cm in length.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371563286 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae
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A Giant Forest Ant, Dinomyrmex gigas, spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 14 June 2026. It didn't appreciate its view being blocked by a human poking a camera at it. :-)
These ants are among the largest in the world, measuring 2 to 3 cm in length.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371563286 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae
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A Giant Forest Ant, Dinomyrmex gigas, spotted at Windsor Nature Park, Singapore on 14 June 2026. It didn't appreciate its view being blocked by a human poking a camera at it. :-)
These ants are among the largest in the world, measuring 2 to 3 cm in length.
On iNaturalist [ https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371563286 ].
#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Singapore #Insects #Ants #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Forgive the subpar photos but I just saw an ant-mimic jumping spider (_Synageles_) investigating a crevice in a wrought-iron fence post. Antennae twitched within. The hole was already occupied by a carpenter ant (_Camponotus_ cf. _novaeboracensis_?) who did not buy the spider's disguise one bit. The last pic is the Synageles looking at me like "Did you just see that?!" It was too funny.
#DailySpiderPic #bugstodon #spiders #AntMimic #JumpingSpiders #mimicry #myrmecomorphy #ants #Araneae #Salticidae #Hymenoptera #Formicidae
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Look at how much peony juice this little _Prenolepis imparis_ drank!
(I looked closely at the _Camponotus_ who have claimed the peony plant next to this one, but their abdomens don't seem to swell like _Prenolepis_' do. A little too closely, as one worker was so startled she fell off the flower and ran away.)
#bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #bloomscrolling #ArthroBeauty
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Look at how much peony juice this little _Prenolepis imparis_ drank!
(I looked closely at the _Camponotus_ who have claimed the peony plant next to this one, but their abdomens don't seem to swell like _Prenolepis_' do. A little too closely, as one worker was so startled she fell off the flower and ran away.)
#bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #bloomscrolling #ArthroBeauty
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Look at how much peony juice this little _Prenolepis imparis_ drank!
(I looked closely at the _Camponotus_ who have claimed the peony plant next to this one, but their abdomens don't seem to swell like _Prenolepis_' do. A little too closely, as one worker was so startled she fell off the flower and ran away.)
#bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #bloomscrolling #ArthroBeauty
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Look at how much peony juice this little _Prenolepis imparis_ drank!
(I looked closely at the _Camponotus_ who have claimed the peony plant next to this one, but their abdomens don't seem to swell like _Prenolepis_' do. A little too closely, as one worker was so startled she fell off the flower and ran away.)
#bugstodon #insects #ants #Hymenoptera #Formicidae #bloomscrolling #ArthroBeauty
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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Another Ant Mimic Jumping Spider and another Asian Weaver Ant which it mimics. This is the female jumping spider. Under normal lighting, their color matches very closely too.
#Ants #Spiders #Insects #Mimicry #Nature #Photography #SriLanka #SalticidSunday #Salticidae #Formicidae
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for @futurebird, some kind of _Camponotus_ alates are out
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for @futurebird, some kind of _Camponotus_ alates are out